DIANA has told fans what inspires her when she sits down to write...

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Diana insists even if the book itself has nothing to do with her planned project, its history and origins will intrigue her.

Speaking to Variety, asked where she draws inspiration from, Diana said: "Everywhere, as any writer does.

"Going to the UK, which I do frequently, you just look at the place and it speaks to you. The history is lying all over the ground. You hit artifacts.

"People will often send me old books from the 18th century and just to hold one of those, you think “this was there then, someone read it then,” and so it’s this fantastic feeling, and it’s very evocative.

"The book itself may have nothing to do with what you’re thinking of or doing, but the feel of it, the sense of the cover and the weight of it.

"You hold one with a leather cover and you’re thinking of old dukes’ libraries and things like that, and before you know it you’re in an office and there’s chewed pens all over the desk because he’s not a tidy man, and you’re wondering what’s bothering him, why’s he chewing his pens, the next thing you know… Anything will do it, and you draw, of course, on your relationships with your own family, with your own friends."

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